Study of Student Achievement Trends in the Urban Systemic Program

COSMOS公司自1999-2000财政年度城市系统计划（USP）成立以来一直担任其外部评估机构。到目前为止，已经对USP的前两个队列进行了几乎完成的跨站点评估。新出现的数据显示，在前两个队列中，USP对城市学校的STEM教育产生了积极影响（并提高了学生的成绩）。要求提供资金以确保评价工作涵盖整个项目组合（第1-3组），以便为今后几年的教育改革提供更长期的前景。此外，拟议的项目将允许研究人员测试改革措施的结构效度，以确保所使用的工具充分和准确地评估系统性改革的价值和优点。

The COSMOS Corporation has served as an external evaluator for the Urban Systemic Program (USP) since its inception in FY1999-2000. To date a nearly completed cross-site evaluation has been conducted on the first two cohorts of the USP. The emerging data show that the USP has positively impacted STEM education in urban schools (and improved student achievement) across the first two cohorts. Funds are requested to ensure that evaluative efforts span the entire portfolio (cohorts 1-3) to provide a longer-term perspective for education reform over a number of years. In addition, the proposed project will allow the researchers to test the construct validity of reform measures to ensure that the instruments used adequately and accurately assess the worth and merit of the systemic reform.